25. Revenge

His father shifted uncomfortably under my heavy glare, burning holes into his eyes. He then looked at Jason without as much fear as he looked at me. I knew what he was looking at and what he saw: a monster, someone worth fearing.

"It's a long story." my words were stiff. "And it's nothing I can explain to you." he cringed at my hostile words and tried to be strong, but I could see every lie in his eyes.

"We just don't want to bring you into this." Jason spoke softly, looking at me wondering why I was talking like that. "It's to protect you."

"From what?" Jason's father was yelling, his face getting red, the blood pulsing fast. I inhaled deeply, taking in the wonderful scent. I locked my muscles, knowing what would happen if I continued to think about it.

My voice had less of an edge when I spoke. "Again, we can't tall you. Truly I wish I could. Nothing hurts me more than taking your son from you, but the moment he fell in love was the moment he entered a path of no return."

Jason sighed.

The dad flickered his eyes to his son, then back to my face. He opened his mouth to say something, but shut it, thinking about his words twice.

"The other half of my family has done something terrible. Mostly because I fell in love with Jason. They killed innocent people trying to blame it on me so Jason wouldn't be allowed to be around me anymore." my temper had cooled down and my voice had no steel in it.

Jason stiffened.

He opened his mouth to talk again, but I didn't let him. "I'm sorry, we have to go." the abruptness of my words surprised him.

"Already?" Jason and his father echoed.

"Yes." I said, towing Jason out of the house. "I promise we'll be back soon enough."

I drove down the road. The sun had hid behind all of the clouds so I knew I could go out with Jason.

"How would you like to go for a walk?" I asked, smiling. I took his hand and held it tightly. He squeezed it in return.

"Of course." his voice throbbed with emotion. I looked over at him and saw the way he looked at me. How could this boy love a vampire? Had the world gone mad? I could answer that one as easy as I asked it. Yes, it had.

I parked at the south lot and jumped out of the car. Jason followed and took me hand again. We walked into the woods when I caught a familiar scent.

I glanced quickly to the vampire who caught my eyes, not wanting to attract attention to me. Once I looked at him, I couldn't stop. I knew this family.

They all sat at a wooden bench, laughing. I recognized some of them, but the others, they were a complete mystery to me. As I looked at each of them, my eyes lingered on one in particular. I knew his bronze hair anywhere. The way his body was shaped, and how fluid he was, even in stillness.

The was a brunette sitting beside him as well as a bronze haired girl vampire who looked like she was only thirteen. There was a honey blonde like Jason sitting next to a spiky haired pixy like vampire. Then there was a tough looking one. He looked strong and cocky.

I looked at the boy who caught my attention again. Edward Cullen.

A hiss ran from my mouth.

All of their heads snapped up at once to look at me. I could name almost everyone of them. Edward's came up a fraction of a second before the rest did.

The ones I didn't know looked at me with confusion. Carlisle, Esme, and Rosalie were shocked to see me. Then Edward Cullen looked at me with pure fear, the very expression I wanted to see.

Fury shook through my whole body. I hated this man who was afraid of me. I had no reason to hate the rest, so I didn't, but Edward was a different story.

"Claire…" Carlisle whispered. I looked into his golden eyes for only a moment, then I glared at Edward again.

You. I thought, too enraged to speak.

Edward's face got paler as he read my mind. I knew he could feel every cell of hatred for him running through my body. I was going to kill him.

I dropped Jason's hand and ran faster than anyone who had thought possible and lunged for Edward's throat. He made a move to protect himself, but even as a mind reader, he wasn't fast enough.

I cracked his head against an oak tree, sending the colossal thing to the ground. Then I whirled him around and sent him flying through the air. I caught him again and slammed him to the ground.

I felt two strong arms around me, trying to throw me off, but they weren't strong enough.

I felt an overwhelming urge to stop fighting and be peaceful, but not even that would stop me from having the revenge I wanted so badly.

I jumped off of Edward, surprising the rest of the family, and landed a few feet back. Edward got up in one quick motion and looked at me horrified, like he wished this day had never come. I hoped he was afraid. He should have known I would find him sooner or later.

Then I smiled.

"No." he pleaded, knowing what I was planning.

Then I unleashed every bit of agonizing power I had in my body and threw it at him. He fell on his back, screaming worse that Shadow. He twitched and shook as he moaned in pure pain. The others surrounded him wondering what was happening.

The honey blonde one looked like he was in pain too.

"Edward!" the brunette yelled, trying to help him. I felt something interfere with my gift, but it didn't stop it. The brunette looked at me with an angry and questioning expression.

I didn't let up one bit. Edward continued to writhe in pain for 5 minutes, it felt like it wasn't long enough. I had to torture him the way he had with my sister. The way he had before he murdered my Sierra.

I heard Jason gasp as he realized what was going on. He was at my side soon enough, grabbing my hand.

"Claire stop."

That was all Jason had to say before I let my gift fade away slowly. Edward stood up with a tortured look on his face, the rest were angry and afraid, wondering what gift I was possessed with probably.

"What the hell…" the big one mumbled. He looked tense for a fight, too bad he couldn't win.

Edward knew that too. "No Emmett." he cautioned, his voice was strained. Good. "You can't fight her and expect to come out alive."

Emmett looked bummed, but he didn't let his guard down. They each walked closer to me. Going a little bit faster than a human run.

Edward held the brunette tighter. I then saw the bond between the girl and him. He was in love with her. I knew who this was. It was Bella, the human girl he left a year ago, only she wasn't so human now. He must have went back to her.

Carlisle spoke first. "Hello Claire. It's nice to see you again." I hated the way he talked to me made me feel more like a monster. He was just too kind and calm. Though I respected and loved Carlisle to death, sometimes I wished he was just a bit meaner.

Edward snorted, but otherwise stayed silent.

"Who is this?" the honey Blonde asked.

"Claire Emerson." Carlisle and Edward spoke in unison. Carlisle said my name with respect, Edward with fear. The others noticed as well as Jason.

"Claire I would like you to meet my family, some of which you already know." he laughed, but looked to Edward uneasily. "This is Jasper," he pointed to the honey Blonde, "This is Alice," he gestured to the pixie looking one, "This one is Emmett," he motioned to the big one and last he told me Bella's name.

I immediately took notice of the 13 year old girl standing behind Edward and Bella. As soon as she entered my thoughts Edward shifted slightly in front of her, in a protective stance I knew all to well from him.

Then I smelled the scent of a human and a vampire mixed together along with a beating heart that was going way too quickly. The scent was amazing. Venom leaked into my mouth like a human who smelled the most delicious food.

The others saw where my attention. All of them shifted into position's like Edward's. everyone except the small one, Alice. Edward and Bella growled in unison.

The Bronze haired girl peaked around Edward and I saw the most beautiful chocolate eyes. Eyes that were already so familiar to me.

Edward walked in my door.

"What are you doing here?" I asked, smiling. It had been so long since I had seen him. I got up to give him a hug, only to notice that his face was dead. I backed away slowly.

What's wrong? I thought. I knew his gift as well as anybody, I was there when he figured out he had it, and I was there when he was changed.

"I left her."

Bella. The girl he had fallen in love with. I had seen them together, but I never actually met her. She seemed sweet, pretty even. Bella was good for Edward, he was good for her.

"Your wrong." his voice was hollow. His eyes had no happiness in them. I'd seen him in bad times. I was there when he was a crazed newborn, wanting to slaughter the whole town for blood. I was there when he was dying from the Spanish Influenza. I was there when he was in so much pain from Carlisle biting him. The pain he was in then made him look like he was skipping through the meadow, whistling. It was like there was nothing inside that body who stood before me.

"Why? You love her. She loves you." I looked into his eyes, trying to find some flicker of emotion besides pain. There was nothing.

He walked slowly and sat on my bed. I watched him curl up in my arms and sob like only a vampire could. I watched him in horror. I've never seen a vampire so helpless.

His voice was drowned in sorrow. "She would be better off without me." he said. "It will be as if I never existed."

I wanted to tell him that would never work. I thought I could just forget about Cody, I knew what it would be like for Bella. She would never forgot. I didn't say it, but I might as well have. He would hear it anyway.

He pulled a picture out of his pocket and shoved it into my hands.

"Keep it." he said while getting up. He didn't face me. "I don't want to look at it anymore." he walked out, his shoulders slumped in defeat.

In my hands was a picture of Edward and Bella smiling. His arms were around her shoulders, while hers were tightly wound around Edward's waist. They looked happy. Too bad the happiness had already ended.

I saw Edward's face cringe as he relived my memory. The others saw him too.

"What did she do?" Bella asked, glaring at me.

"She just has a good memory." Edward looked at me. "She was thinking of the night I came to her, the night right after I left you." Bella flinched as well. I knew she would.

"You went to her?" Bella hissed.

"Enough talk, Edward." I said harshly. "It's time I finished what you started."

Edward took one step back, his arms held up. "Claire is doesn't have to be this way."

"Yes it does." I slipped into a hunting crouch after throwing Jason's hand from mine.

"Claire listen to him. We can solve this without fighting. You don't have to kill him." Carlisle spoke kindly.

A thought danced across my mind.

"You're right, Carlisle. I don't have to kill him. How about a loved one for a loved one? Yes I like that one better." I set my eyes on the strange thirteen-year-old that Carlisle forgot to mention when he introduced everyone. She seemed so fragile.

"No!" Edward begged. He was too late. Before anyone could react I lunged for the girl.

Then I was thrown to the ground. Something pinned my arms down in less than a second.

"Jeez, Claire. Angel lets you go here and then you decide to take your anger out on Edward because of Syd?" Skylar's voice said. I looked at his face, he was smiling.

Others gasped in surprise that he could bring me down. Well of course he could, he knew every fighting style known to man. And he could turn invisible like he wasn't even there so he surprised me. I wonder how long he was really standing there.

I jumped up quickly. "Don't you know who this is?"

He looked at Edward sadly. "Yes." he said after a while. "He was the one who 'ripped Sierra limb from limb and burnt her to death', as you put it."

"It didn't happen quite like that." Edward mumbled.

I hissed. "You slaughtered her! You ripped her apart. And then when you heard I was coming for you, you ran Edward! You ran like a little girl! You couldn't face your punishment like a man! You left me here to deal with Keith! Did you not understand that they were in love? Of course you didn't. Because all you felt like was defending Bella!

"She was joking, Edward! She didn't know how it felt to lose someone you love like we do." my voice lowered again as I thought of Cody, burning Shadow. It reminded me of how I found Sierra in the streets.

Before I could try to attack again I was surrounded by my family-well half of my family-who was constricting their arms around me, holding me back. I hated when I knew they were right.

Listen. I'm sorry that I added the Cullens-you know for those of you who are angry. I added them because soon in this story I'm going to add the volturi. And if I added them and not the cullens…well I just thought it would make it better. My friend told me I should and I kinda already knew how I was going to put Edward in this story. If you hadn't already guessed it, Edward killed Sierra-Keith's mate from earlier in the story-after he left Bella. You'll hear why in the next chapter. Just please keep reading, if you don't like the Cullen in it now, it gets better! I promise. And you know in the next one Jason's going to say some things he gonna regret cuz it might just end his first love with Claire.

Oh and btw I don't own twilight. I love the twilight series and I guess im making a twist to the classic story just like everyone else, but its sorta like a fifth book to it. I didn't change anything in the series, I just added it to mine. I hope you like it!!!! : ]